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Jeff Bezos
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 12
Astronaut
Computer Scientist
Entrepreneur
Albuquerque
New Mexico
Jeffrey Preston Bezos
Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen
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Our point of view is we will sell more if we help people make purchasing decisions.
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People don't want gadgets, they want services.
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There are multiple ways to be externally focused that are very successful. You can be customer-focused or competitor-focused. Some people are internally focused, and if they reach critical mass, they can tip the whole company.
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I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn't work. If you're going to invent, it means you're going to experiment, and if you're going to experiment, you're going to fail, and if you're going to fail, you have to think long term.
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We've done price elasticity studies, and the answer is always that we should raise prices. We don't do that, because we believe -- and we have to take this as an article of faith -- that by keeping our prices very, very low, we earn trust with customers over time, and that that actually does maximize free cash flow over the long term.
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The Net is pretty cool, but the physical world is the best medium ever.
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Not the outcome any of us wanted.
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What characteristics do I look for when hiring somebody? That's one of the questions I ask when interviewing. I want to know what kind of people they would hire.
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I’m a big fan of all-you-can-eat plans, because they’re simpler for customers.
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For every leader in the company, not just for me, there are decisions that can be made by analysis. These are the best kinds of decisions!
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And I still buy books at B&N, Borders and Elliot Bay ... I probably shouldn't admit this. But I don't care. I love great bookstores.
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It’s very important for entrepreneurs to be realistic. So if you believe on that first day while you’re writing the business plan that there’s a 70 percent chance that the whole thing will fail, then that kind of relieves the pressure of self-doubt.
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To get something new done you have to be stubborn and focused, to the point that others might find unreasonable.
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If we can keep our competitors focused on us while we stay focused on the customer, ultimately we'll turn out all right.
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You cannot make a business case that you should be who you are not
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I wouldn't be surprised if history records Tim Berners-Lee as the second Gutenberg.
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I'm going to go do this crazy thing. I'm going to start this company selling books online.
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We are pioneers and the history of pioneers is not that good.
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